Call for new Q&A questions

I saw the Spanish edition of The Great British Bump-Off is called "Se ha Horneado un Crimen", which translates to "A Crime Has Been Baked" according to Google Translate. I'm curious, since puns show up so frequently in your work, do translators talk to you about the direction to take a pun when there's no direct translation possible?

What accents do the central characters in Giant Days and Bad Machinery have? My kids love it when I read the comics to them and do voices, but as an American I’m making pretty random stabs at region and class.

Are there any 'power tools' you would like to have for your work? Or is doing as much as possible by hand an essential part of the overall look? I can imagine you could have something that could match your hand lettering and lay out speech balloons. Or something that could analyse the drawings for depth and allow you to shift your viewpoint. Or even something that could take your pencil sketch and turn it into something close to your finished product.

Not sure exactly. I remember a long time ago on the Bobbins or Scary Go Round site there was a post mentioning a short film or TV episode (I don't remember if it was official or a fan project) and it featured a still image of actors playing Shelley and two male characters I don't recall sitting around either a dingy office or waiting room. I haven't been able to find the image online so I'm now starting to wonder if this is something like Mandela Effect going on.

Is there any way of accessing the long lost live action Bobbins movie/TV show?

Do you have an artist or writer you'd like to work with on a one-shot or short series?

Which part of the story gets you most stressed out in writing? Taking for example a full volume which usually has a starting, middle, and end result, is there any part of the story writing that you always simply struggle in, and if so, how do you push through it?

I know you have moved on from the Bobbins characters, but I really enjoyed the older stories, even though the graphics were more primitive than what you do now. I think they were Bobbins precursors, like Len had a hamster and somebody was married to Iliana, the Icelandic girl. I have been wondering if you might make them available again online, like they used to be.

Do you have a pie-in-the-sky, time/money are no object dream story you would love to tell? I have been astonished at your constancy and consistency over these many years and I have wondered if you ever hoped for a couple of years to conceptualize and create something that would just be delivered in one doorstop-sized collection.

I want to see a Robert Cop collection! Warts (and notes and doodles) and all! Robert Cop!

Do you eavesdrop a remarkable amount? Your ear for dialog is remarkable, especially for how kids speak with each other, and I've always been curious where that originates.

Would love to hear about any past dealings with the major publishers that never happened, for whatever reason. And why wouldn't Marvel just publish Kit & The Wolf? Another Wolverine comic on the shelf surely couldn't hurt. Did you ever approach them with it?

I'm imagining you doing a mash up of MY STAR, YAWNING SKY, BUMP and CODSWALLOP even though you gave no clue about them. Codswallop sounds like a fun, random name that should just be used no matter what the project is about. As to a question, any chance the boys from Bad Machinery will get any future love? Sonny was in particular was left off in a very intriguing and nebulous way.

You've occasionally done comics set in the U.S. Do you find that you need to do any research for those, or is (u. s. of) American culture so pervasively exported to the rest of the world that you automatically know everything you need about us?

Have you considered replacing the now-arrested Mrs Clovis with a ex-soldier, who's overly keen to slay the demons? Reasons in comments.

Would be very interested in hearing about that New Avengers project, and/or various other 'Big 2' pitches that didn't come to pass

If Steeple is the Bobbinsverse Lovecraft (minus the... unsavoury aspects) and your upcoming Conan project is the Bobbinsverse Robert E Howard, what do you think will be the next Weird Fiction author you take on?

Have you ever thought about adding a talking robot to your cast of characters?